Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we’re a values driven, fast‑growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet.
We’re investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.
We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal.
This role is approved for Sponsorship and provides relocation assistance to Barcelona. It is full‑time permanent and hybrid (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou, Barcelona).
Our mission is to make it fast, easy, and intuitive for pet parents to connect with the right sitter.
We're a cross‑functional team based in Barcelona, working closely across engineering, product, design, and data science. Our primary metric is conversion, and because it sits at the heart of Rover's business, our work has a direct, visible impact across the platform.
You'll be joining seven talented and supportive full‑stack engineers who care deeply about clean code, thoughtful collaboration, and delivering high‑quality user experiences. We take our work seriously, but we also love to have fun together, whether it's team lunches, offsites, or casual coffee chats on the terrace at the office.
Takes ownership of problems end‑to‑end: from understanding the business need, to designing the solution, shipping it, and monitoring it in production
Is able to take loose requirements, collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to determine what needs to be done, and drive a project forward
Cares deeply about code quality, maintainability, and engineering craftsmanship; writing code that is clear, well‑tested, and built to last
Is excited about using AI tools to accelerate their workflow, improve code quality, and ship faster.



You see AI as a core part of modern software engineering, not a novelty
7+ years of experience as a professional software engineer, with a strong track record of delivering backend systems
~ Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python and Django. If your background is in another major backend language (Java, Go, C#, Kotlin), that's absolutely welcome, what matters most is engineering depth, and we'll support you in ramping up on our stack
~ Solid knowledge of relational databases (schema design, query optimization, migrations)
~ Strong testing discipline: you champion automated testing (unit, integration, contract) and treat it as a core part of shipping, not an afterthought
~ AI‑augmented engineering: you actively use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) in your daily work, for code generation, debugging, refactoring, code review, and exploring unfamiliar codebases. Comfortable working across the stack: while your strength is backend, you can navigate a React/TypeScript frontend to unblock yourself or collaborate effectively with frontend engineers

Experience with React or React Native, enough to contribute to frontend work when the team needs it
Experience with distributed systems patterns: async task queues (Celery, RabbitMQ or similar), caching layers (Memcached, Redis), and event‑driven architectures
Familiarity with search infrastructure (Elasticsearch or similar)
Experience with REST API design at scale (Django REST Framework or equivalent)
Exposure to continuous deployment pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code practices
General Skills




You are meticulous about system design and user experience because you want to deliver the best service to your customers
You are comfortable working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
Good level of written and spoken English (our engineering team is in Barcelona, but we work in English)
We are proud to be professional software developers building high‑quality, scalable, and supportable solutions
We embrace progressive engineering practices, including continuous deployment, automated testing, observability‑first development, and AI‑augmented workflows powered by tools like Claude Code, every engineer on the team uses AI daily to move faster and build better software
We are serious about the quality of our production operations, with thorough system, application, and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection
We are passionate about data‑driven decision‑making
Our teams are integrated, with developers, product managers, designers, and data scientists working side‑by‑side
And, dogs in the office. Long‑term incentive plan with a company performance‑based cash payout
~ Private medical insurance
~Flexible work hours — sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're adaptable when it comes to managing workload and time
~ Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more
~ Dog‑friendly office

Additionally, Rover offers a long‑term incentive plan with a company performance‑based cash payout and benefits to full‑time employees
The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
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📌 Senior Engineer, Product Design Engineering (Barcelona)
🏢 Rover.Com
📍 Barcelona